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December 2012

Getting more gray hair with
DIE FORMATION DOPPELHERZ 2000

December 28, 2012
ZÜRICH, Switzerland …
and that is about all I know. Are we the cavalry?

December 31, 2012
BONN. No further details revealed to me, but I’ve been told
it’s a New Year’s Eve. Also, leave your duffle bags at home.


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July 2012

Die Formation Doppelherz 2000 degenerates at Summerspringbreak 2012.

I’ll gladly be a drop in their sweaty genepool. Who wouldn’t?

DIE FORMATION DOPPELHERZ 2000
July 7, 2012 – @ Tsunami, Cologne –



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May 2012

»My expectations are simple and few,
I think I’ll spend a day in June with you!«
(Gameface)


Let’s just do this. Bunch of new songs. Candy from strangers.
Old and new buddies joining:

Cashew + Mikroionik + Bigo Seinz
June 16, 2012 – @ Blue Shell, Cologne –

Let’s say … around 8? Excellent.
And yeah, you look good.


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September 2011

Unlike Lot’s wife, I am not only looking back, I am actually going there. It hasn’t turned me into a pillar of salt yet, but it does give me some nervous hard-on, metaphorically.

On Saturday, September 24th, I’ll be in the small village of Bardenbach, in the small federal state called Saarland, and just a snappy spit away from what I called home eventually. Set in the surrounding of an art exhibition and asking no admission fee, I’ll be playing some acoustic Cashew songs, later on being joined by Cologne’s most under-abbreviated, ABC Georgia, for another bunch of unplugged song lore.

Five days later, September 29th and a workforce-friendly Thursday, we’ll switch on amps and play the Tsumani in Cologne, along with the fabulous Lo-Fi Fair. Also, there is just some more heavy duty guitar leasing for Die Formation Doppelherz 2000. Rad!

In short, the basic essentials are as such:

Cashew + ABC Georgia
September 24, 2011 – @ 90-Tage-Galerie, Bardenbach –

Lo-Fi Fair + ABC Georgia
September 29, 2011 – @ Tsunami Club, Cologne –

Die Formation Doppelherz 2000
October 21, 2011 – @ Pegel, Cologne –
November 5, 2011 – @ Kunstwerk, Cologne –


Plus, for boldly making it here, please enjoy the newest Cashew song, »Waidwund«. Yeah right, Sherlock, this one features German lyrics. Get it here.

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July 2011

July 8, 2011 @ Tsunami, Cologne Date has been changed!

July 2, 2011 @ Tsunami, Cologne
Watch me providing heavy duty guitar leasing for Die Formation Doppelherz 2000.
Also appearing: Mikroionik. Salt of the earth …

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May / June 2011

Cashew, a desolate sportive entity and prissy bearer of stitches and sore muscles, is proud of having contributed a song to the next quantum leap in sports: the new TIBHAR commercial. I’m talking table tennis here, quite possibly the only sport that harbors any dignity. At least if you watch it from your favorite spot on the couch. You can fetch that song, »King Out«, as a full download.

In other news: While »Disturbulence« is being sent out, I hit the ready room to perform these songs on acoustic guitar, and with a cello player. It was nice and fragile and beautiful and all, I guess. It’s just that the hardcore band next door was a tad louder.
But hey, having Cashew in your living room, wouldn’t that be the greatest thing since bread came sliced? Think about it. I should mention that we’re housebroken and cute as orphaned kittens.

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April 2011

I’ve been thinking, which is a clever thing to do,
unless sometimes, it’s not.

It is backwards with music. That is the punchline of a witty and graceful introduction to the artist that I never wrote, because I was too tired. It would have been a charming tale.

The attributes you would have been led to tag with the artist are as follows: elaborate, insightful, enchantingly complicated. There would have been a subplot charged with sensual white noise. There would have been delicate moments of introverted frailty and churning instants of raging tigerishness. It would have been grand. Maybe tomorrow.


I write songs. I occasionally record them. I play them, too.

There is a new 4-song EP, »Disturbulence«, and giving credit where credit is due: Jörsch plays the drums on this one.

download or listen here …

♫ 01 cashew buckle.mp3

♫ 02 cashew alex murphy.mp3

♫ 03 cashew this way happy.mp3

♫ 04 cashew if i chose.mp3



Would it be too pushy to offer a bunch of songs?
Thank you, I heart your equability.

download or listen here …

♫ 01 CASHEW up your ass.mp3

♫ 02 CASHEW bullshit a bad name.mp3

♫ 03 CASHEW and everybody knew.mp3

♫ 04 CASHEW i liked your sister better.mp3


inspiredly played by
ramin (drums, smiling)

bo (bass, beverages)

and daniel (vocals, guitars, sweating)
additional vocals on #03 by helen vogt




lovingly recorded by el davide
all songs by daniel hecktor

this. is. CASHEW.
Americana / Indie / Pop

»about«. pfft. What am I supposed to tell you? If you’re buying fancy sneakers that come with a 10 page manual praising the product’s hightech sole, it basically all boils down to some pale sweatshop kids with shaky fingers, know what I mean?

Besides, I’m not selling you anything. Selling music, whoa,
crazy thought. Artists should starve (at least emotionally)
to be authentic. You deserve this. Cashew has proudly been starving for ten years now.

That’s a lot of songs that have failed to become products.
A genuine error of performance, some might say, but I’d probably stop listening to some after two words anyway.

Here’s what »Disturbulence« might be »about« …

»buckle« pictures a man whose identity has crumbled like
a worn street map. If the guy sounds detached, I assure you
he’s not. It’s also about smell.


»alex murphy« Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent.
Uphold the law. Still booting. Have heart, won’t hurt it.


»this way, happy« moodlifters versus genepool.

»if i chose« is about a man hesitating to blow his brain out,
cause he doesn’t want people (and himself) to be catching a glimpse of all the stuff that stuck there for so long. So long.


Then again, perhaps I’m a liar …
so why don’t you simply listen, for fuck’s sake?